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Does anyone know what the Freikorps armoured car in the attached pic is?

Doe anyone have a pic of a Freikorps Poplavko-Jeffery?



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According to Rainer Strasheim in the Tankograd book on German Armoured Cars it's a Russian Packard fitted with an

improvised gun mount with a 2cm Becker cannon.

The same book has a couple of images of the Freikorps Jeffrey-Poplavko - it's noted the ex-Russian armoured car only

made a brief appearance on the streets of Berlin in January 1919.

Regards,

Charlie

 



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Thanks!

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Here are some interesting pics:

https://vk.com/album-49466084_248706432

Cheers, Peter



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Thanks

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Hi Charlie, I am trying (unsucessfully) to find out the dimensions of the Packard armored car. Do you know which Packard chassis was used?



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Thanks again for your help. I made some models. See pics



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On a newstand I found a survival magazine "Be Ready" which has an article Internal Struggle by Neal S Shera which deals with the early wiemar freikorps period. It has a colorized picture of a Freikorps Austin Pulitov armored car painted green with deaths head insignia painted on it. Just thought some one would like to know.

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